XinTai Black Wheat

XinTai Black Wheat

　　XinTai Black Wheat is a new variety introduced in 1997 from the Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences to Yangliu Town, XinTai City. It was successfully tested in cultivation. Throughout the introduction and promotion process, the product has demonstrated stable and consistent characteristics, with high overall performance and strong adaptability. It is suitable for planting in the common wheat fields of the Huang-Huai-Hai wheat-growing region.　

　　　 Black wheat is semi-winter hardy with high cold resistance. The plants grow to a height of 74–76 cm, have prostrate seedlings, strong tillering ability, well-developed roots, lodging resistance, short stems, compact plant structure, neat ear layers, and strong disease resistance. The ears are rectangular with long stalks, bright white glumes, black, elongated, hard grains. The ear length is 8.8 cm, with multiple flowers and grains. The yield is about 400 kg per mu, and up to 500 kg per mu in high-yield fields. In 2000, the planting area in XinTai City reached 22,500 mu.

　　　 Black wheat is highly nutritious and serves as both a functional and therapeutic health food. Tested by the Agricultural Products Quality Inspection Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Shandong Provincial Product Quality Supervision and Inspection Institute, it contains 18 amino acids and essential trace elements such as zinc, phosphorus, and calcium. Its unique elements, including selenium and iodine, make it an excellent health product for cancer prevention and treatment. It has been listed as a next-generation variety for the new century and holds broad prospects for development.